Today was my first day of vacation, Denis and I had planned to go on day ride and enjoy some windy roads of Gold Coast hinterland. We left the house at 8:30 AM, after a quick breakfast. We stopped at the petrol station to fill up our tanks. We were finally ready to hit the road.
We started by going to Springbrook, (Springbrook is a magnificent natural park about 20 miles away from Robina up in the mountain, we’ve been there many times and Jessie talked about it in this blog quite often). Despite the staggering weather we enjoyed today. The more we were climbing the colder it was getting, Therefore, once we reached the top we decided to go on towards the Natural bridge (another 40 miles from Springbrook).
We were not excepting 20% slope down hill. We could see Robina and Surfer Paradise on one side and the hinterland on the other. It was sincerely breathtaking.
On the way to Natural Bridge, we stopped to take some pictures. (abandoned houses)
and other things
Once we arrived at Natural bridge. we took a stroll to have a closer look at it. About 30 minutes later we hopped back on our bikes and stopped at a the only shop we could find. They were nothing healthy in that thing but in this great Australian tradition, we soldiered on and bought Doritos with sauce, bread and cheese.
In this shop, we saw an interesting map and decided to go up to “funny named” Mont WARNING.
Unfortunately, we took a wrong turn and then another wrong turn, soon enough we were lost, our sat-nav battery were dead so we kept going. We got to a point where the road was not sealed. No need to precise that our bike are not Dirt bike, slick tyres have no grip at all on sand.
Stupidly we kept going, could not exceed 15M/h, and it went on for ever. We stayed stuck at low speed for about an hour or so.
Finally we made a final stop at a hippy town and ate something. Our muscles were soared, we were tired so after 6 hours in the mountain we made our way to the highway and came back home at about 4:00 PM.
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